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Truckin'
March 16, 1973
Nassau Coliseum

Check out the totally mad vocals. Someone's belting it out, and it ain't Donna! Out of a killer Dark Star.
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Dark Star
March 16, 1973
Nassau Coliseum

A long deep ride: Inter-stellar collectivity with deep-space weirdness after 1st chorus.
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Row Jimmy
March 16, 1973
Nassau Coliseum

Beautiful ensemble playing. Jerry and Donna harmonise nicely.
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El Paso
March 16, 1973
Nassau Coliseum

The boys push behind Bobby like the posse chasing the narrator of the song. You can hear the hoofbeats. Excellent.
10
Eyes Of The World
March 15, 1973
Nassau Coliseum

Soaring. Jerry and Phil in collective consciousness. My version is marred by a rough AUD patch though.
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Comments

The Eleven
Jan. 17, 1970
Oregon State University

Hola deadheadben, didja finish with '70? I'm going through '72, which has highs and lows, but leaves something behind with the funky informality of the early years. Listened to this again and loved loved loved it. Peace, brother.
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Feb. 25, 1990
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

Easy there brothers, there are many versions and we can line 'em up like dominoes, look at each one like votive saints, or something in between, being here now and all that. Is this one killer? Sure. But while you're at it, check out my personal fave from the unknown acoustic Rambler Room show Nov. 17, 1978. This beaut is a forgotten link between the acoustic, (gasp!) 1970 dead and the Radio City Reckoning we know and love and never heard again. Am I wrong? Is there another acoustic gem out there mid-90s? Let me know if you find it, and I'll dig it too.
Crazy Fingers
Feb. 28, 1975
Bob Weir's Studio

More '75 than you might think on the Archive if you dig into the rehearsal tapes. Nice call on the Floyd reference. An "all-muscle" Crazy Fingers is a perfect description of this experimental version - can you imagine if they'd kept this aesthetic and turned it into another white-knuckle hard number like TOO? What kind of lyrics would Hunter have penned? As it turns out, the Crazy Fingers we know and love is one of the most delicate poetic dreamscapes in the entire oeuvre, both lyrically and musically. How funny that they'd be working it through a totally different system. I'm about to embark on a deep '75 vibe... I can feel it coming.
Drums
July 21, 1972
Paramount Northwest Theater

Stronger than Dirt / King Solomon's Marbles ?!? Right at 2:00 Phil strums a little pattern that sounds familiar just for about four seconds. Maybe I'm crazy, (well of course I'm crazy), but it sounds like it to me.
Sugaree
Oct. 9, 1977
McNichols Arena

Nevermind! It seems like it's back and better than ever. THANKS HEADS.
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